Number of vertical levels / datapoint in calc. soundings
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For instance the ICON model seems to have 120 / 74 vertical levels (Global / EU, couldn't find how many D2 has) and only a few select vertical levels are available in windy.
I can understand that the height slider will not allow all of them (lots of data to process!), but why are there such big gaps in the lower atmosphere (current: 0, 600m, 750m, 900m, 1500m, 2000m) and is the spacing so weird?
Between 900 and 1500m ICON offers 3 more levels and between 0 and 600m even 7 more. It would definitely be helpful if more vertical levels in lower atmosphere were available.
The Soundings tab is even somewhat useless due to the very rough vertical resolution. The position of inversions is off by over 500m often due to the lack datapoints (which are available in the model data, but just do not seem to be used).
ICON documentation:
ICON model description